White Pond is a 40 acre kettle pond formed by receding glaciers over 10,000 years ago. Trout is the predominant catch. For that it is one of the best cold water fisheries in eastern Massachusetts. There is a public boat ramp, with a few parking spots, for car top boats, electric motors only, to the east off Plainfield Road. A public parking lot for a few cars is on Varick Street. The Bruce Freeman Rail Trail runs past, west of the pond. Miles of public trails offer fishing access and hiking around the southwest quadrant, which is the area I chose to explore.
I parked in an office building lot at 144 North Road in Sudbury and got on the Sudbury Conservation Trail to the White Pond Reservation trails in Concord that abut the pond.
Thoreau said White Pond may be the most beautiful of our lakes, despite Walden. Today the town owned White Pond Reservation has been left undeveloped as it was, for us to enjoy, natural, and peaceful.
If you are spinning bring nightcrawlers, shiners, or spoons, and PowerBait for stockies.
A guy in a kayak caught a rainbow with a mosquito wet fly. He mentioned he saw a mosquito around so he switched to that fly pattern. His kayak was equipt with a fishfinder and he said the fish were stacked up 15 down. It was quiet besides that. I met another fellow that told me about a great striper spot. I am already planning to go there in May.
White pond is stocked in spring and fall but has not been stocked yet. I was targeting holdovers. Here is the state's
trout stocking schedule.
Custom map of White Pond Reservation for GPS units.
I dropped off a
train related travel bug at this
geocache near the bridge pictured below, and left a Swim Senko rubber fishing worm to use in the pond.
White Pond Reservation trail map
